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W. G. SEABOLD.

PACKING CASE FOR CARBOYS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.12, 1919.

1 ,2,7 1 3e Patented Nov. 4, 1919.

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Patented Nov. 4,1919.

. Application filed April 12, 1919. Serial No. 289,784.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, WALTER G. SEABOLDI,

"a citizen of the United States of America, a

' resident of, Alton, in the county of Madiuse in transporting large bottles, commonly known as carboys, and has for its object the construction of a packin for such cases made of strong and durab e cushiomng devices of simple and inexpensive nature which may be expeditiously arranged in the packing case bodies, and which a ord a very high degree of protection to prevent breakage of the carboys and insure greater'safety in handling.

Figure'I is a perspectlve vlew of my packing case, the cover or lid being shown open and part1 broken away.

' Fig. I is a plan view of the case, the cover or lid being omitted.

Fig. III is a vertical section through the case in open condition, with one of the corner packin strips shown only partially inserted.

Fig. V is a perspective view of the bottom cushion device of my case.

In the drawings, A designates the rectangular body of my packing case provided with a suitable cover or lid B.

Within the body of the case A is a bottom cushioning device C which rests upon the bottom of the case and serves to yleldably support a carboy centrally positioned w1thin the case and surrounded by the cushioning members to be hereinafter described.

The bottom cushioning device C serves to so yieldingly support the carboy as to prevent damage thereto by shock imposed upon the packing case in a vertical direction,-and said device comprises the following elements, viz., a base board 1 rest 7 on the bottom of the case body- A, a block 201 smaller dimensions than the base board resting centrally upon said baseboard, a lower spring board 3 resting on jsald block and an upper spring board 4 resting uponand ex-' tending transversely of the lower spring board. The lower spring board issurmounted b carboy-receiving blocks 5 and the upper 5 card is surmounted by carboyreceiving blocks 6, the top surfaces of all of said blocks 5 and 6 bein in the same horizontal lane so that a car oy placed within the ac case body A will rest uniformly on a l of sald blocks and be sup orted thereby. All of the parts of the car oy-sup orting device 0 are preferably of wood an the spring boards 3 and 4 are of wood veneer. By making the spring boards of wood veneer it is possi 1e to make them of such thinness that they will readily yield under sudden pressure imposed b the carboy supported by said sprin boar s, and at the same time of such toug hness that they will not be broken due to the ,force of any shock that may be delivered against them byverticalmovement of the carboy. This result is possible, as will be apparent, owing to the veneer board bein made up of'a plurality of plies of wood in which the grain of the difi'erent plies cross each other.

The body of the carboy is protected by a, cushioning means, which will be next described. Approximately midway between the side edges of each wall of the case body A, within said case body, are thin cushion strips 7, preferabl of wood veneer, which are s aced from t ewall of the case body by distance blocks 8, located between said cushion strips and the body wall. The

blocks 8 at the upper ends of said strips are preferably secured to the case body A, while looks at the lower ends of the strips may be free of connection to said body, as seen in Fig. III. The cushion stri s 7 are so separated from the bod A of t e packing case by the distance bloc s 8 that they will contact with the exterior of a carboy positioned between them and afford as many cushions for the wall of the carboy as there are cush ion strips 7 It shouldbe noted that the distance b ocks 8, back of the cushion strips 7, are shorter than the width of said strips, and therefore the margins of the strips extend beyond the distance blocks, as clearly- These corner cushion strips are of such width that they will extend from the distance blocks 8 back of one of the side cushion strips 7 to the distance blocks 8 back of thenext adjoining side cushion strip 7, lo-

. blocks being of such len th that they will engage theadjoining wa ls of the packing case body, as seen in Fig. II, when the corner cushion strips are in position. Therefore the side edges of the corner cushion strips are confined back of the marginal' edges of the side cushion straps and wedged between the spacing blocks 8 back of said side strips and adjoining walls of the packing case body. Consequently, the corner cushlon strips may be readily slipped vertically into place diagonally of the corners of the case body A, and when completely positioned within the body back of the marginal portions of the side cushion strips, will be firmly held Without any securing means for attaching them to the packing case body. 4 In Fig. III I have shown one of the corner cushion strips only partially inserted into the case. It will be apparent that when it is completely lowered into the case it will be interlocked between the side cushion strips and the case body, due merely to frictional engagement as described.

The several cushion strips 7 and 9 are all preferably of wood veneer, this material being used on account of yielding nature and toughness to afford the desired and necessary yielding action in cushioning the carboy which contacts with the several cushion strips and is protected at all points throughout its circumference thereby. Consequently, a jar in any directlon cannot injure the carboy and t ere is no liability of breakage of the cushion members.

It will be apparent that the herein described packing is inexpensive, and that it may be very expeditiously arranged in the case body A, the only procedure necessary in establishing the packing being the securing of the side cushion strips 7 to the walls of the packing case body and the insertion cushion strips.

2. ,The combination with a packing case body, of carboy cushioning means within said body comprising side cushion strips spaced from Walls of said body, and corner cushion strips extending across the corners of the case body and removably interlocked between the case body Walls and said side cushion strips.

3. The combination with a packing case body, of carboy cushioning means within said body comprising side cushion strips spaced from walls of said body, and corner cushion strips having their side edges located back of the side margins of said side cushion strips, said corner cushion strips being provided with distance members engaging'walls of said case body and holding the margins of the corner cushion strips in engagement with the margins of said side cushion strips.

4. The combination with a packing case body, of carboy cushioning means within said body comprising side cushion strips spaced from walls of said body, said side cushion strips being wider than the means by which they are spaced from the walls, and corner cushion strips interposed between the means for spacing said side cushion strips from the walls and having their side margins located back of the side margins of the side cushion strips.

'In testimony that I claim the foregoing I hereunto aflix my signature.

WALTER G. SEABOLD. 

